Sandy's 70th Birthday

In late March we took the motorhome up to Gold Country Camp ground and joined Carols family in helping Sandy (Carol's sister) celebrate Sandy's 70th birthday. We joined a number of the family and friends for a less than impressive dinner at the St. George hotel. It was a nice evening, the food was ok, but the service was sad. Sandy thought that Friday evening was the extent of it.

What Sandy didn't realize was that there was a surprise birthday party planned for Sandy that would happen on Saturday afternoon! Check out the video of Sandy's surprise party below.



Also, we are joined by another family member in full timing. Carol's niece Brandee and her husband Kevin are full timing, with their three dogs. Their home base is at the Gold Country RV resort in Pine Grove, California!

There rig is a little more humble than ours, but for those of you that full time like we do, you know it is not the size of the rig that matters, but the amount of love that fills it!

Happy Camping! - Eric and Carol Anderson -

Out in the motorhome FINALLY!

Well, the winter usually leads to a reduction in our ability to get out in the motorhome, and this year is no different. The last time we were able to get out in the Motorhome, was in November when we went to Marq and Stephanie wedding. Just because we haven't been out in the motorhome, it doesn't mean that we haven't been enjoying our life in the motorhome and striving to make it better at all times. We absolutely have!

During the winter months we have relocated the TV in the living room area. We have also built an Ottoman to improve the enjoyment of our TV experience as well as improve storage in the motorhome. Also, we've replace the TV in the Bedroom of the motorhome. And, on top of all this, we are saving our selves 80 dollars a month by cancelling our Cable subscription. Once we bought our selves a DVR, we find we don't miss Cable at all!

This weekend, we joined Eric's sister Karen and her husband Mike in Red Bluff at one of our favorite RV parks, Durango RV Resort. In getting together with Karen and Mike, we all celebrated Mikes birthday! We bought him a new Digital TV antenna to improve the number of channels they would get over the air. Also, we bought our selves one as well to improve our signal as well by getting our selves a new antenna as well.

 

 

We so enjoy getting out in the Motorhome. Our next adventure is in Late March where we will go to join in the 70th birthday of Sandy Ealy who is Carol's sister. We will be visiting Amador county and Staying at Gold Country camp ground!

 

 

Happy Camping! - Eric and Carol Anderson - 

Some of our spare time volunteering

Hi there everyone,

As we have eluded to in our previous posts, we are both very involved with a Pit Bull Rescue here in the Sacramento Area. The organization by the name of Chako is very involved with two of the local animal shelters in the Sacramento area. Chako has volunteers that go on a daily basis to work with shelter dogs.

On occasions, volunteers come across dogs that are special in some way. The following video is about Oreo who was saved by Chako from the Sacramento SPCA. Oreo was on the Euthanasia list because of the fact that she was born blind in both eyes.




Because of the love and dedication of Chako volunteers, Oreo was taken care of and placed in a wonderful home in the Bay area.

For more information, check out Chako's website at www.Chako.org

Happy camping! 

Eric and Carol

Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

You know, as we get older, time does appear to fly past us. But also, with both of us being so heavily involved with Pit Bull rescue here in Sacramento, our time does seem to be gobbled up there as well. Also, Eric seems to always have a home improvement project coming along that he needs to take care of. And, this holiday season is no different.

For Christmas, we stayed pretty close to home. Doing so allows us to be close to much of our family, and it also cuts down on the wear and tear caused by our dogs on other peoples lives! Once again, this holiday season was very good to us. On Christmas eve, we were able to get together at Sandy and Bill's for the annual holiday gift exchange where everyone brings a gift and then we get to exchange and steal from one another three times! This event is always a lot of fun.

On Christmas day, we were fortunate that Katie and Russell were able to come visit with us and enjoy some Christmas dinner. As always, Santa was good to all of us. Katie and Russ got a new printer. And the two of us got a new TV set for the bedroom and a DVR which will record off the antenna.

 

 

As a side bonus to all of this, we cut the cable. We are now watching all of our TV from off the air. We are saving our selves almost $90 a month by not using cable any more. Yes, we did buy ourselves a DVR, but with just 3 months without cable, we will have paid for the DVR with our monthly savings.

We've been without cable actually two weeks now. And though we do have a couple of favorite shows we are missing, all-in-all, we don't miss Cable TV much at all.

We are planning on going out of town for Eric's birthday weekend, so we may not have much of an update until then, but we will try to do a better job of keeping you posted!

Happy camping! - Eric and Carol Anderson -

Thanksgiving 2013

Hi there everyone,

Well, tail end of November snuck past us in a blur! After the wedding of Marq and Stephanie, we started to ramp up for Thanksgiving events. We started our Thanksgiving early with a get together with a camera shy Katie and Russ as they came over for an early Thanksgiving dinner on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Once again we prepared a 12 pound bird in the convection oven that came out perfect!

 
Later in the week, we went to Ashland Oregon to enjoy Thanksgiving with Eric's sister and brother-in-law. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Eric took the day off to run some shopping errands. He even took a few moments to clean the living room carpet in the Motorhome so that it would have the long weekend to dry! At 1:30 however, Eric packed up the dogs in the car and headed over to Carol's office at CAL-FIRE to pick her up and get headed up to Mike and Karen's in Ashland. This trip, taken without the Moho, still included the three dogs, Lilly, Rosie and Charlie!

We made a quick stop at Granzella's in Williams to pick up some sour dough bread and then again a stop for dinner in Redding to enjoy dinner at Applebee's which has become almost a right of passage, when ever we head up to Ashland for a visit. Thursday Thanksgiving day, we were able to enjoy a wonderful day with Karen and Mike preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. Thanksgiving dinner, as always, was a wonderful affair having Mike's brother Chuck and his wife Teri joining us for a delicious Thanksgiving Ham. As is typical, we all ate way too much! :-)

On (Black) Friday, we pursued a couple of ad items that we had read about, but came up empty. None of us are the type to hang out starting at 2:00 AM looking for a great plunder. So we headed out Mid-morning to see what we could find. None of the items we were looking for were any longer available, but we did score a good deal on a flat panel TV set for the bedroom. We've been looking to replace that TV for a while, but we weren't in any hurry. Now, however, that deed is done. Stay tuned for some future blog posts about how that upgrade goes!

Friday evening, we went with Karen and Mike to downtown Ashland to see the Santa Parade and the lighting of the Tree in the town square. Though it might be described by some as being Hokey, it was a lot of fun.

We had one little frustration this holiday weekend. We had left Rosie alone in Karen and Mikes motorhome on Friday evening and Rosie just could not handle the separation. She became frantic and worked to escape the Motorhome in an effort to find us. In the process, she destroyed a mini blind in their rig, which now we are going to be replacing.

Some good news that we got this weekend is that as we move into 2014, Kris and her partner Laura, will be getting married in Connecticut, probably sometime in August. Though we won't be able to take the Moho on that trip, we most definitely will be there! All in all, our Thanksgiving was a wonderful one, and it enabled us to get together with family members once again and enjoy some good times.

Happy Camping! - Eric and Carol -

Marq and Stephanies wedding - November 2nd 2013

Hi there everyone,

The wedding of Marquis Wraight and Stephanie Chambers at Incline Village Lake Tahoe was a wonderful event. The wedding was held on this Saturday afternoon in this east Lake Tahoe location which puts it in the State of Nevada. The lake side service was held on the Hyatt resort property which served as the central location for all of the weekends festivities.

On Friday, and even Sunday, the weather was relatively warm and calm. The weather on Saturday though, was a little cool and breezy. None the less the location was beautiful as well as the bride and groom! There were about 100 witnesses for the wedding, which was officiated by a close friend of Marq and Steph's. Both Marq and Steph seemed comfortable and at ease with the proceedings.

One of the fun things was us was taking a picture at the wedding printing it out on our Printer in Karen and Mikes room and putting it in a frame to then drop off at the gift table at the reception! The picture frame had a couple pictures which were downloaded from Stephanies facebook page, a picture from the wedding rehearsal dinner and a picture from the wedding!

Here is a video of the wedding activities.




On Sunday, Marq's parents, Karen and Mike as well as Marq's sister Kristin and her partner Laura went for a tour of the perimeter of Lake Tahoe and we tagged along! As was indicated, the weather on Sunday was beautiful. We had lunch at Camp Richardson which is on the southwest shore of Lake Tahoe and took a tour of Valhalla which is always an interesting resort to explore. Even though it is closed for the season, visitors are still able to venture in and explore this resort that dates back to the early 1900's.

One of the recent announcements that occurred a couple weeks before the wedding, is that Laura and Kris will be tying the knot sometime soon. So, we took a few pictures of the girls that show just how much they love each other! Ah, we can't wait for that upcoming wedding that will be held in Connecticut.



Our stay for this wedding weekend, in the City of Truckee was a wonderful one. We are so glad that we got to take the Motorhome to the Campground here and provide the ability to have the dogs stay in the motorhome while we were off on various weekend activities. Though we did take the two pitties on Sunday's trip around the lake.

Happy Camping!

- Eric and Carol -

The Trek to Truckee

on Thursday the 31st of October Eric left work at 2:00 to get the motorhome, put some fuel on board and the go to Carols work to pick her up. Once we had everything hooked up, we headed to Truckee and the Coachland RV park. This will be our home base for the next four nights while we join the family for Marq (Eric's Nephew) and Stephanie Chambers wedding!

We arrived in Truckee around 8:30 and got camp set up. The campground is very nice and mountaineseque. On Friday, we did a little exploring around Truckee. We've scouted out some locations for possible visiting later this weekend. The only place we visited significantly, was Jax at the Tracks Truckee Diner.  The food there was delicious for a diner. We shared a Mushroom Swiss burger which was amazing.

 

Later Friday, we went to the Hyatt at Incline Village to hook up with Karen and Mike, do a little catching up. Around 4:00 we followed along for the wedding rehearsal. After the wedding rehearsal, we enjoyed a family dinner together.

We are looking forward to a very enjoyable rest of the weekend with the entire family!

Stay tuned for more updates tomorrow!

Happy Camping! Eric and Carol